30.436, Calls: Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/China

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Subject: 30.436, Calls: Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/China

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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 17:46:26
From: Neil Smalheiser [neils at uic.edu]
Subject: Embeddings and other Vector-based Representations in Biomedical and Clinical Text

 
Full Title: Embeddings and other Vector-based Representations in Biomedical and Clinical Text 

Date: 10-Jun-2019 - 10-Jun-2019
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Neil Smalheiser
Meeting Email: neils at uic.edu
Web Site: http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/evidence_based_medicine/ieee_ichi.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

Embeddings and other Vector-based Representations in Biomedical and Clinical
Text

Full Day Workshop at IEEE ICHI 2019
http://www.ieee-ichi.org/
Beijing, China, June 10, 2019

Full day workshop on Embeddings and other  Vector-based Representations in
Biomedical and Clinical Text, to take place at IEEE Intl. Conference on
Healthcare Informatics.


Call for Papers:

Neural embedding methods have made a huge splash in NLP, and many researchers
are exploring applications for mining biomedical articles and clinical text.
The recency and momentum of this field might be enough reason to motivate a
workshop on this topic. However, there has also been a burst of creative
explorations in the biomedical arena: Augmenting neural embeddings with
context, disambiguation and semantics; building in sequential and discourse
information; hyperbolic embeddings; and asymmetric relations for sentence
entailment, to name a few. There have also been explorations of vector
representations of text that are not based on neural embeddings: For example,
implicit similarity metrics; high dimensional predication spaces;
neurobiological-based vector dimensions; and noncommutative concept relations
defined using quantum logic.

This workshop aims to explore the latest methodological advances in vector
representations of words, sentences, and documents, and their applications to
downstream tasks. These tasks range from text classification and
summarization, to patient phenotyping and cohort discovery, to sentiment
analysis and prediction of suicide risk, to literature based discovery. This
workshop will also make an effort to stimulate the establishment of shared
community resources that will allow different groups to take advantage of
others’ code and datasets, and thus make it easier for groups to compare
methods on different downstream tasks.

To increase the diversity of ideas and people represented at the workshop, we
will attempt to utilize Skype or a similar web-based platform to allow
registered participants, who are unable to travel to Beijing, to make remote
presentations and participate in the discussions. (However, due to the
vagaries of the internet, we cannot guarantee the quality or connectivity of
remote participation.) 

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: March 8, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2019
Camera-ready version due: May 3, 2019
Workshop date: June 10, 2019

Submission Guidelines:

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. Proceedings of the workshop will be included in the
proceedings of the main conference. The workshop will accept both regular and
short papers as well as posters:

- Regular papers (8-10 pages, references not counted towards the page limit)
will describe mature ideas, where a substantial amount of implementation,
experimentation, or data collection and analysis has been completed.
- Short papers (2-6 pages, excluding references) will describe innovative
ideas, where preliminary implementation and validation work have been
conducted.
- Posters (1-2 page abstract, excluding references), similar to short paper
submissions, will describe innovative ideas and where preliminary
implementation and validation work has been conducted.
 
All submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee in single-blind
fashion (submissions should have the names and affiliations of authors listed
on the paper). Highly ranked regular and short papers will be considered for
oral presentation slots, with secondary consideration given to ensuring
adequate diversity of ideas and topics. Papers not accepted for an oral
presentation slot will automatically be considered for poster presentation
opportunities.

Submission link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichi2019




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